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Religiosity is dropping in every developed country except the USA. Jesus and guns baby!

Republicans are not pro-life, they are anti-woman. All the laws to protect a fetus, but once it's born, no assistance for health care, education, childcare etc. The great George Carlin once said, "Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers".

To be fair, this is also happening in European countries.

What is wrong with women’s breasts/nipples? People celebrate the AR-15 but demonize women’s breasts. Why???

Yep.

USA and NZ are the only western countries that allow direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical marketing.

Or... the voters are even dumber. Our education system is pretty terrible.

I think you mean 8% discount.

To be fair, the whole US electoral system with it's heavy emphasis on the President rather than the party is weird.

We already have restrictions on arms. You can't walk into a Walmart and buy an M60 machine gun because they are classified as a "weapon of mass destruction". All most of us want is for assault rifles to be classed the same way. It's not a huge thing to ask and it was done before in 1994 with the assault weapons ban.

Funny thing though! Those who hate immigrants are, like it or not, known as 'anchor-children' of immigrants who fleed whatever country they left behind. Now, the only people who can express their discomfort are the Native American-Indians. Don't believe me? Look for the YT video: 'Native American confronts anti illegal protesters' Just look an listen

With stupid high deductibles that a healthy person will never reach so basically Americans are being forced to pay outrageously high rates for nothing more than major medical and if you're lucky, one wellness visit each year.

I pay $1800 a month for a family of 5 and have to dish out so much for a doctors visit, not preventative health but like getting testing and getting a z pack for the flu is like 200 out of pocket... and they only cover like 5-10% of it....it's ridiculous. F*ck you Aetna!

I thought my €138 per month with €385 own risk per year was already alot

They make it overly complicated because the majority of us won't bother to file the extra paperwork. Our healthcare system is infested with parasitic costs and that is the best metaphor I have for it.

And meanwhile SOME preeminent Americans call Canada a pinky evil commie because we have universal health care... OK so the system is far from perfect, but at l;east we don't have people go bankrupt and libing in their car because they fell ill.

I sold my home and retired early. They want me to pay 800/mo with stupidly high deductibles. So I have no health insurance. I recently either had a mini stroke or Bell's palsy. (the right side of my mouth droops when I am tired.) I am just living with it. I figure there's nothing doctors can do for either one so why bother to see one.

Insurance companies do not want to pay for your healthcare, but they want to make money off of people seeking healthcare coverage. They would rather have people with serious, chronic illnesses and disabilities die before the company has to pay out too much money. And, when it is possible, those companies will even countermand a legitimate doctor's orders for a patient by refusing to pay for a procedure or medication.

What? That's cheap! Plus a $10,000 at least deductible. As an American.

I don't even make that much, I would not survive in the US

If not even Mary Lou Retton cannot afford health insurance... makes you wonder what's the story behind that.

Oh my god! It's that expensive?? Terrible

Don't forget that only perfectly healthy people are allowed to buy healthcare.

I was talking to a friend about eye care. I have insurance. $600 and if I want even a tad extra costs(like no scratch glasses) $199 more

591?!?!?!?!

The worst in modern countries!!!

Even in drug raids. Get the money before the people.

We're exhausted by it as well. Just pay a living wage!

Well, the Puritans were quite a sexually-repressed, violent group of people. They did not hesitate to use violence to "carry out God's plan", whatever they happened to think that was: assaulting and tormenting old women they thought were witches, burning Native Americans alive, persecuting Quakers, etc. They'd fit right in with today's GOP.

Yep! U can legally murder people for ur "country" and (supposedly) vote who will run it, but not capable of deciding if u should smoke or drink

In other countries guns serve a purpose, from sport to guerrilla warfare, but it seems in the US they are owned to feed the fantasy of the owner one day getting into a shoot out like in the films.

Big pharma calls the shots and the government has never had the courage to stop them.

You haven't seen kpop, cpop and jpop stans ( or stans of pretty much any asian celebs). Before anyone calls me out for 'racism', I'm asian.

A 2% charge on our taxable income gives us 'Universal Healthcare' here... I didn't realise we were an 'Evil Communist Country' Doesn't feel like it, feels more like the freedom country Americans shout about but don't have.

Poor folk in the US have to buy shelf-stable high calorie food. Lots of pasta, bread, canned food. Often theylive in food deserts where they have to travel long distances (not easy if you’re poor and there’s no public transport) to get to any kind of decent grocery store. Plus added sugar in everything. Please don’t judge too harshly. The stupids are drowning everyone who want to make things better.

I see too many giant trucks, they don’t even look good

Of course, because all children are exposed to death and bloody violence from the moment of birth and never, ever see a woman's breast. Obviously, I mean how could they? It's not like women's breasts feed babies, is it? (who, me, sarcastic? Never!)

I usually have to get to-go boxes, once at a restaurant I got a burger and a salad and I was already almost full by the time I finished my salad since it was so big and I had to take the burger home

Fructose/corn syrup in way too many foods

Please don’t say “they” like it’s all of us

"But I've never thought they would eat MY face!" cried the woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces party.

I can't watch sports in Australia any more. The amount of gambling ads just make it unwatchable.

This isn't just endemic to the US. Doesn't Japan have the same issue?

Not necessarily just 'misunderstanding ' it, also being taught only certain aspects and having some parts being left out.

Umm Alizée is not American. This is a worldwide problem. P**s off

Countries where there is age appropriate sex and relationship education in schools and easy access to birth control have lower rates of sexually transmitted disease, lower rates of teen pregnancy, and older age at first intercourse. There's also data showing that in those countries, young people are more likely to report that they felt emotionally happier and content about their first sexual experience.

I feel like people care a little bit too much about sports anyway

I think we're talking news media here, not people. The news American media reacts violently to the smallest provocation.

And the list of side effects goes on and on

Let's just call it what it actually is: Infant Male Genital Mutilation.

Several years ago I watched a movie about a man who had the same name as a politician who was the incumbent but had died. The man ran for the same office and won because, in my opinion, people just vote for the names they recognize instead of taking the time to actually research the candidates. This is why, again, my opinion, we have politicians that are over 80 running this country with the majority of them completely out of touch with the struggles and hardships their constituents are constantly dealing with.

That's a picture of London - Piccadilly Circus to be precise. The red double decker bus is a bit of a hint that it's probably not the US. The aluminium statue (behind the camera) is of Anteros, not his more famous brother Eros.

Cash tips ARE taxed. In fact the IRS (US tax authority) assumes a minimum amount of tips and servers have to pay it EVEN IF THEY DON'T RECEIVE THAT MUCH.

Calling that weird stuff in a spray can "cheese"

The narcissistic Xmas card (& the irritatingly smug “Round Robin” letter) is in the UK as well.

Fry from Futurama said something like "One day, I may become rich - and then people like me better watch out."